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| Learn Biblical Hebrew | 
 enlarge | Author: John H., Dobson
Publisher: Baker Academic
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (7 reviews)
Sales Rank: 413865
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 2nd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 408
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0801031028
Dewey Decimal Number: 492.482421
EAN: 9780801031021
ASIN: 0801031028
Publication Date: April 1, 2005
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Product Description
From his experience in teaching biblical Hebrew to beginners, John Dobson has developed a teaching style that enables people to read actual passages of Scripture from an early stage. With this book, readers can learn Hebrew on their own and will find themselves reading meaningful verses from the Hebrew Bible after just two hours of study! The second edition has been updated and revised and includes an audio CD-ROM.
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 Learn Biblical Hebrew 2nd Edition by John Dobson - not useful for me February 14, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I was particularly interested in the CD, but found it extremely disappointing. The readers sounded bored and very American. There was no "teaching" attached to the CD, just reading words and paragraphs in uninspired voices.
The cover claims one could start reading meaningful verses after just 2 hours. After 2 hours I was still struggeling to decipher the differences in the Hebrew letters.
If someone wants a reference book to the language, this works fine. But it has a weakness in its teaching sequence. A lot of steps are missing.
A great complement to beginning Hebrew October 13, 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
The Dobson book takes more of an "immersion" approach to teaching Hebrew in that it jumps right into speaking and reading Hebrew, without making the distinctions in syntax and grammar. For me this has been a very helpful 2nd year Hebrew grammar book. I used Kelley's Biblical Hebrew for my first year. Dobson makes a lot of assumptions and glosses over a lot of things that, I think, would have been very confusing if I had used it in my introduction year to Hebrew. But, knowing what I now know about the Hebrew language (which is not a lot!), Dobson's book serves to get me going on actually reading and listening to Hebrew. The companion CD with this book is a MUST HAVE!!
Overall, it's a good book. But I would not recommend this for a solo beginning Hebrew grammar. It should be paired with a book like Kelley's Biblical Hebrew to give the best results.
 Great way to learn Hebrew on your own! May 18, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I've been using this book for about 5 months now to learn Hebrew from scratch. Been going rather slowly through it (I'm in no hurry), and although the lessons do go at a fairly fast pace, you can take your time through them (I'm currently 1/3 through the book). There is some repetition of words, to help you review along the way. Having no prior knowledge of Hebrew (but having learned other languages), this book is wonderful. The CD is quite beneficial too. Writing Hebrew is not stressed much in this book--just learning to read and speak Hebrew, using passages from the Bible.
great companion to Learn Biblical Greek April 11, 2007
1 out of 8 found this review helpful
As a Bible student, this has been a great help.
Very fast learning through constant dedication January 4, 2007
9 out of 12 found this review helpful
This review is based on my personal experience, I do not have the qualification for a technical rating of this work. Having this statement in mind I recommend other students John H. Dobson's "Learn Biblical Hebrew" as a rapid and efficacious method to grasp the essencials of this difficult, but rewarding language. An immersion in biblical hebrew is an irreplaceable tool to better enjoy and understand the Old Testament, the unfolding of the living message that came to us by means of the writings of many sons of Israel during centuries of agitated history. Dobson's system of learning, on the other hand, demands tough dedication from the student. The rapid pace of the work takes the learner's language skills for granted. If you are not skillful enough to catch the subject you would be stuck for weeks in the same lesson. Of great help is the CD provided with the book, it enables you to get the ear training on the unfamiliar sounds of this semitic tongue, so remote from our closer indo-european superfamily of languages. The presentation of the alphabet in the first chapter is a challenging but unavoidable step in the process of learning. Again, dedication and hard working are necessary to take the most from this work. Doing so is the key to a successful introduction to the amazing benefit of reading the word of God in the original language.
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